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Bacon of the Sea posted:Shef Weds striker Gary Madine jailed for 18 months for breaking one a nose and a jaw in two separate attacks in bars RIP Coventry City legend
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http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/update/2013-10-28/tiote-given-suspended-sentence/ Tiote has been given a suspended sentence for using a forged driving license
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24939428 Nile Ranger has gone missing from Swindon Town and nobody is sure where he is. Nice to see Swindon managing to gently caress up in new and entertaining ways.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...itish-game.html Theres some breaking news about match fixing in England.
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cadfael posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...itish-game.html http://www.newafricanmagazine.com/special-reports/other-reports/african-football-the-truth-behind-match-fixing/who-is-wilson-raj-perumal Here's a pretty neat article about the guy they say is behind the big match fixing syndicate. He's supposed to be assisting Hungarian authorities in uncovering other match fixers.  e: This one is longer and less good, but perhaps useful regardless: http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7927946/soccer-wilson-raj-perumal-world-most-prolific-criminal-match-fixer-espn-magazine
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cadfael posted:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...itish-game.html MLS is the only pure league in the world.
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Right after their game against A.C Milan, Celtic player James Forrest was arrested over alleged sexual assualt and public indecency from earlier this month. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-25102654
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DJ Ramshackle posted:Right after their game against A.C Milan, Celtic player James Forrest was arrested over alleged sexual assualt and public indecency from earlier this month. He was arrested the morning of the game, he allegedly got his wang out in a night club. They released him and he still played that night.
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Delroy Facey, ex Bolton, Derby County player is one of those arrested in connection with match fixing.
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rats off to ya posted:MLS is the only pure league in the world. Considering even the Canadian "professional" top division has been busted for match-fixing, I wouldn't be so sure.
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Nothing is pure and holy anymore. I don't know what to believe! I hear a lot of people being charged and poo poo, but has anything ever come of it? Ribery, Benzema, Ranger, etc.
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Remy was supposed to be in court this month but it doesn't seem to have happened but there has been no news the case has been dropped
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Match fixing at the highest level is a lot less prevalent than in the lower leagues. Mostly because to get a player in the Top divisions to risk their entire career will cost alot more than a 5 grand.
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serious gaylord posted:Match fixing at the highest level is a lot less prevalent than in the lower leagues. Mostly because to get a player in the Top divisions to risk their entire career will cost alot more than a 5 grand. There's been cases in italy, spain and other big-ish leagues where top flight teams have had problems paying their players for months iirc. It's mostly in the lower league, and most often in central/eastern europe where a lot of these things can go under the radar. I saw a documentary about it once that said Belgium has or just to have big problems with match fixing in their lower leagues.
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Yeah I can imagine its very prevalent in lower divisions due to the fact that its much harder for a player to turn down someone offering him 5 grand to throw a match when thats as much as he earns in a month.
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That and its probably easy to get away with as a footballer if you're not really stupid about it Edit: In other dodgy football news, 3 people have been charged with hacking the FA's computers
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serious gaylord posted:Yeah I can imagine its very prevalent in lower divisions due to the fact that its much harder for a player to turn down someone offering him 5 grand to throw a match when thats as much as he earns in a month. I know players who play amateur football in the fourth and fifth tiers of the regional football leagues in norway that regularly receives messages from mystery profiles on facebook and twitter promising them money to lose matches, concede a lot of goals, get sent off etc. It's unbelievable that it's even possible to bet on matches from these leagues.
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euroboy posted:I know players who play amateur football in the fourth and fifth tiers of the regional football leagues in norway that regularly receives messages from mystery profiles on facebook and twitter promising them money to lose matches, concede a lot of goals, get sent off etc. It's unbelievable that it's even possible to bet on matches from these leagues. Yeah I don't get how that's possible. Surely the gambling companies are sensible enough to realise that if more then £100 gets placed on a match like that it's dodgy as gently caress and they should suspend betting.
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Its all illegal gambling in Asia. There was an article in the Guardian a while back when one of the bigger match fixers got arrested that they had spotters absolutely everywhere and at times spotters were just making poo poo up because a match wasn't actually being played
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:Yeah I don't get how that's possible. Surely the gambling companies are sensible enough to realise that if more then £100 gets placed on a match like that it's dodgy as gently caress and they should suspend betting. In this case the most dodgy thing is that all players know each other and will always easily know all sorts of information and can bet on their own or other matches without being caught because no one cares.
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Yeah I know people who earn $$ to basically provide match updates (not dodgy) to betting companies in Asia of 3rd division Australian state leagues. There was a big bust recently where a few got done too.. It always makes me wonder on betfair when you see Georgian U19 matches you can bet on.. how could they NOT be fixed?
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Obviously the bookmakers make huge profits off all the lovely matches or they wouldn't offer them.
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I remember when Delroy Facey played for Gillingham. Very hard to tell if he was throwing a match or just poo poo.
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euroboy posted:I know players who play amateur football in the fourth and fifth tiers of the regional football leagues in norway that regularly receives messages from mystery profiles on facebook and twitter promising them money to lose matches, concede a lot of goals, get sent off etc. It's unbelievable that it's even possible to bet on matches from these leagues. Earlier this season more was bet on Welling vs Billericay Town than on the Barcelona champs league match the same night. Only 408 people attended the game. Some bookmakers haven't taken bets on Chelmsford, Billericay and AFC Hornchurch games since then. Apparently the total average betting for a 5th tier game in England is about £30k, but their games were going into several million. The people running the fixing must have known they'd only get a narrow window before they were found out, but I doubt they give a gently caress considering there's so many other games they can fix elsewhere for similar cash.
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Scott Bakula posted:Remy was supposed to be in court this month but it doesn't seem to have happened but there has been no news the case has been dropped Anything ever come of this?
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Bea Nanner posted:Anything ever come of this? A large hole in a certain French bank account?
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Bea Nanner posted:Anything ever come of this? Gonna do a big lol to myself and otherwise leave it here because welp lol
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6 people have been arrested for trying to spot fix Championship matches
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and here's the red card that Sodje says he did deliberately for seventy grand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOThFCftgyc
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BBC news was trying to go for the whole "once upon a time it was enough to just watch a match but now people gamble?" angle and the guy they had on was like are you seriously trying to get a world-wide ban on gambling? it was a bit odd the angle they were going for, asking if the FA should step-in as well was odd, when the FA has no power outside of football and they'll just have to consult with the new national crime agency(?) and police.
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Popehoist posted:2 of the players mentioned, Sodje and Montano, are ex-Notts players Leeds loaned in Sodje in '09, he only played a handful of games but one of the ones I was at I remember him scoring some retarded own goal from outside the box, I googled a bit and managed to find a video of it http://www.footytube.com/video/Leeds-United-vs-Tranmere-Rovers-11068 Honest mistake, or... something much more sinister? I think it's clear that we would have been promoted that season and likely even won League One were it not for Sodje's cartoonish villainy. Shameful
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DJ Campbell has been charged as well.
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Sodje & DJ Campbell used to play for Brentford together too. I suppose it makes sense if they make a few quid they'd tell a friend...
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It makes sense to assume PL matches don't get fixed because of the risk for everbody involved, and the fact that it would be difficult for these people to offer your average PL footballer money he can't refuse. But if championship matches have been fixed what are the chances that here and there it played a part in getting some teams promoted either directly or indirectly? Pretty high I reckon. e: or relegated, for that matter
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It doesn't make any sense at all to assume that PL matches aren't fixed. It's pretty much the same reasoning as "there's no doping in football so there's no reason to take blood samples". All it takes is for someone to make an not too obvious own goal or maybe get a red card.
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sircozzie posted:It makes sense to assume PL matches don't get fixed because of the risk for everbody involved, and the fact that it would be difficult for these people to offer your average PL footballer money he can't refuse. All they need to do is find someone with huge gambling debts
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